About Sherry
Sherry Martinez is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Texas with 25 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma, and a range of life changes. Her work is practical and straightforward, aimed at helping clients find clearer coping steps and renewed purpose.
Sherry shifted into social work after a career in business management, returning to school to complete a Master of Social Work and then two years of clinical supervision to obtain her LCSW.
Background and approach
That career change shaped how she listens - she pays attention to daily demands and realistic goals. She draws on long experience supporting people through major life transitions and chronic concerns. Her approach is collaborative and centered on each person’s strengths.
Sessions often focus on identifying meaningful values, building small behavior changes, and learning tools to manage distress. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices to help people notice patterns and try new responses. Sherry also uses client-centered and emotionally focused ideas to create space for feelings and improve communication with others.
She has worked with people facing addictions, bipolar disorder, chronic illness, caregiving stress, and issues that grow from family of origin or abandonment wounds. Her style is direct but compassionate, with attention to practical steps. Clients find that therapy with her is focused on steady progress.
She supports people in setting realistic goals, practicing skills between sessions, and tracking what helps. The overall aim is clearer direction and better day-to-day functioning.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice what matters to them and take small actions in that direction. It focuses on clarifying values and building willingness to tolerate hard feelings while doing meaningful things. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, and teaches concrete tools to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change routines. Mindfulness Therapy emphasizes present-moment awareness and practical exercises to reduce reactivity and improve focus.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and life demands, then suggest which strategies to try first. Treatment is collaborative - techniques are adjusted based on what helps in real life and what feels doable between sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can support brief check-ins or skills practice between appointments. These options provide flexibility so people can keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or other obligations.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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